> P.S. If your computer is screaming fast and you have
> tons of ram, you might try installing VMWare server or
> player and try Linux virtually for a while.

Ubuntu disks will allow you to use linux without actually installing it.
It's not as fast as the installed version, but it's very good.
You can even use ubuntu while ubuntu is installing itself!
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